Recent Fiction

Beside Calais

by Samantha Henderson

14 May 2012

One of the éoles reared on its back wheel at their approach, spreading its ungraceful wings and spinning its propeller: a dominant male, getting their scent. The flock stopped grazing for a second, and the low hum of their engines quickened as they readied for the signal to take off.

Bright Lights

by Robert Reed

7 May 2012

It is immediately apparent who is useful here and who must be sacrificed.

Introduction to "The Gods of Reorth"

by Debbie Notkin

30 April 2012

My fondness for "The Gods of Reorth" is born both of the story and of the cultural context in which it appeared.

The Gods of Reorth

by Elizabeth A. Lynn

30 April 2012

Jael remembered years of famine, of drought, of blight. Once she had sent a plague. It had hurt, watching the inexorable processes of disease and death sweep over her people. She had not asked reasons for that.

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